Media that empowers working people – that's how we build a More Perfect Union.

Don't Miss a Video!

Access our exclusive reporting and rapid response actions directly in your inbox, so you don’t miss a beat in the fight for working people nationwide.

Be a part of a community backing up independent journalism with action.

Ideas

Have a story to tell or idea to share?
Email [email protected]
© 2021 More Perfect Union Action

Together we can build power for working people.

We’re asking questions that really matter, and telling the stories of people who really need to be seen and heard.

You can support our work by donating today.

Amount

Make It Monthly

Don't Miss a Video!

Access our exclusive reporting and rapid response actions directly in your inbox, so you don’t miss a beat in the fight for working people nationwide.

Be a part of a community backing up independent journalism with action.

Iron Workers Fired After Voting to Unionize

Illinois Ironworkers were betrayed by their bosses. Now they're fighting back.

YouTube Thumbnail

Ironworkers at an Illinois G&D Integrated facility were laid off after voting to unionize.

G&D Integrated is a large trucking and logistics company with 1,000 employees. Welders at the Illinois manufacture parts for mining trucks and equipment. In 2021, workers organized for a say in shop safety protocols.

Despite overwhelming union support, G&D launched an intense anti-union campaign that included harassing and surveilling the workers, as well as threatening to close down the shop. Workers filed more than 100 unfair labor practice violations against the company. Then in March 2022, the welders were laid off, effective immediately.

“I was working on a deck that I had stood up on a crane and was still welding out for all of our orders to be complete, what about the one I’m working on? It didn’t make any sense,” recalls welder Evyn Way.

Now a coalition of 12,000 Ironworkers is calling on the National Labor Board of Relations to force G&D to bargain in good faith and reinstate the fired workers.

The Latest

YouTube Thumbnail
We Talked To Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar About Universal School Meals
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
The ‘No Labels’ Third Party Bid That Could Sabotage Trump and Biden
Read More
Pharma & Crypto Among Winners as Revolving Door Spins From Congress
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
Medicaid Work Requirements: We Exposed the TRUE Cost of Republicans’ Top Priority
Read More
Poll: The Public Overwhelmingly Supports the Writers’ Strike
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How America Can Stop Dangerous Train Derailments
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How Milton Friedman Broke The American Economy
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How Food Delivery Apps Are Trying to Kill a Worker Uprising
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
Public Education Is A Mess. This Candidate Has A Plan to Clean It Up.
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How CEOs Manipulate the Stock Market
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How Starbucks Just Broke the Law (Again)
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
DHL Express Workers Expose Gruesome Working Conditions
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How Right-Wing Grifters Are Destroying Public Schools
Read More
Inside UPS’s New Business Strategy: Executive Pay Skyrockets As Infrastructure Investment Dwindles
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
Inside a Major Climate Fight in Oil Country
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
Sun Country Airline Workers Vote To Unionize—Management Fought Back
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
Why Hollywood Writers Are Going On Strike
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
How Jack Welch Broke America
Read More
YouTube Thumbnail
This Grocery Giant Stole Millions From Their Workers
Read More
Revealed: The Corporations Mobilizing to Defeat Biden’s Labor Secretary Nominee
Read More